Virta MD Team Leader

Virta Health Corporation

Job Overview

Location

Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Reporting into the Director, Provider Operations, the Virta Medical Group is searching for a physician leader to lead and mentor a team of 10-12 nurse practitioners while seeing a part-time panel of Virta patients (0.2 FTE equivalent).
• In addition to core team leadership responsibilities, the MD Team Lead serves as a physician leader within VMG, helping advance clinical excellence, provider development, and strategic organizational priorities.
• The MD Team Lead is responsible for driving team performance, supporting physician growth and development, and fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and clinical excellence.
• This role partners closely with VMG leadership to identify best practices, improve care delivery, and ensure physicians are effectively contributing to the broader success of the organization.
• Success in this role is measured through team performance, clinical outcomes, member experience, employee engagement, physician development, and contribution to organizational priorities.
• The MD Team Lead will lead, coach, and develop a team of physicians to achieve clinical, operational, and engagement goals.
• The MD Team Lead will establish a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• The MD Team Lead will conduct regular 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, career development conversations, and ongoing coaching.
• The MD Team Lead will identify performance gaps and proactively develop improvement plans to support clinician success through partnership with Clinical Education Lead.
• The MD Team Lead will recognize and develop high-performing clinicians, creating opportunities for growth and leadership development.
• The MD Team Lead will support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and retention of physician team members.
• The MD Team Lead will monitor team performance across quality, clinical outcomes, member experience, and productivity metrics.
• The MD Team Lead will conduct regular reviews of physician performance and provide actionable feedback to improve care delivery.
• The MD Team Lead will perform clinical quality assurance activities and support adherence to evidence-based care standards.
• The MD Team Lead will partner with VMG leadership to identify emerging quality concerns and implement corrective actions as needed.
• The MD Team Lead will maintain a small patient panel and model excellence in patient care.
• The MD Team Lead will identify trends, barriers, and opportunities impacting team performance and patient outcomes.
• The MD Team Lead will surface and share best practices across teams to improve consistency and effectiveness of care delivery.
• The MD Team Lead will provide frontline insights and feedback to Provider Operations and Clinical Program Management leaders regarding opportunities for workflow, process, and program improvements.
• The MD Team Lead will support implementation and adoption of new programs, tools, workflows, and organizational initiatives.
• The MD Team Lead will foster collaboration across VMG teams to advance organizational priorities and improve provider effectiveness.
• The MD Team Lead will drive team performance, support physician growth and development, and foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and clinical excellence.
• The MD Team Lead will lead, coach, and develop a team of physicians to achieve clinical, operational, and engagement goals.
• The MD Team Lead will establish a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• The MD Team Lead will conduct regular 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, career development conversations, and ongoing coaching.
• The MD Team Lead will identify performance gaps and proactively develop improvement plans to support clinician success through partnership with Clinical Education Lead.
• The MD Team Lead will recognize and develop high-performing clinicians, creating opportunities for growth and leadership development.
• The MD Team Lead will support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and retention of physician team members.
• The MD Team Lead will monitor team performance across quality, clinical outcomes, member experience, and productivity metrics.
• The MD Team Lead will conduct regular reviews of physician performance and provide actionable feedback to improve care delivery.
• The MD Team Lead will perform clinical quality assurance activities and support adherence to evidence-based care standards.
• The MD Team Lead will partner with VMG leadership to identify emerging quality concerns and implement corrective actions as needed.
• The MD Team Lead will maintain a small patient panel and model excellence in patient care.
• The MD Team Lead will identify trends, barriers, and opportunities impacting team performance and patient outcomes.
• The MD Team Lead will surface and share best practices across teams to improve consistency and effectiveness of care delivery.
• The MD Team Lead will provide frontline insights and feedback to Provider Operations and Clinical Program Management leaders regarding opportunities for workflow, process, and program improvements.
• The MD Team Lead will support implementation and adoption of new programs, tools, workflows, and organizational initiatives.
• The MD Team Lead will foster collaboration across VMG teams to advance organizational priorities and improve provider effectiveness.

🎯 Requirements

• MD or DO degree with unrestricted license to practice medicine in at least one U.S. state, with expectation of obtaining more licenses over time.
• Multiple state licenses are helpful, but only the willingness & ability to get additional licenses are required with expectation that licensure will expand to 15+ states if required to support business operations.
• Board certification in a relevant specialty.
• 2+ years of direct people management experience, including coaching, performance management, and physician development.
• Demonstrated success leading teams to achieve clinical, quality, productivity, and engagement goals.
• Experience interpreting performance data and using insights to drive accountability and continuous improvement.
• Strong coaching and feedback skills, with a passion for developing physicians and future leaders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience.
• For this role, the compensation range is 111,750-144,250.
• Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.
• As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA.
• Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential.
• Security and privacy training will be provided.
• As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco.
• Clinical roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, HI, RI.
• Corporate roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI.
• Virta uses Ashby as its applicant tracking system, which incorporates AI-powered tools (provided by OpenAI, AWS, and Google Gemini) in certain aspects of the recruiting process, including application review, candidate screening, and interview note taking; your data is not used to train AI models, and all final hiring decisions are made by Virta Health personnel.
• For more information, see Ashby's AI Terms at https://www.ashbyhq.com/resources/terms-ai-features

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About Virta Health Corporation

Virta Health provides physician-supervised telehealth treatment for type 2 diabetes and metabolic disorders. Its evidence-based protocol combines continuous remote monitoring, personalized nutrition, and virtual medical care to reduce or eliminate medications and achieve sustained blood-sugar control. Founded in 2014, the company partners with employers and insurers to deliver outcomes-based programs that lower healthcare costs and improve patient health.

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